Introducing the Prada Pre-Fall 2017 Bag Collection. This season, the Cahier bags are presented in geometric patterns made in velvet, as well as a new micro size and clutch style. The Ribbon bags are back for Pre-Fall 2017 with a metal closure and basic colors. The brand’s signature tote bags are still part of the collection, made of their iconic Saffiano and Vittelo Daino leathers. Prada have been including more shoulder bags in their collections which features vintage style and comes with gold chain strap and closure, and this season is no exception.

Last time we share the Prada Velvet Tote Bag, we received great responses. So today, we came across the Shoulder Bag version and we just needed to share it.

Minimalistic styles are always welcome, they match to your outfit easier and saving you time thinking which piece is better.

But minimal is one thing, and beautiful is another. We can say that this shoulder bag is lovely as well as the material. It’s actually crafted from Velvet and the brand’s signature is printed on the front ‘Prada Milano’ for an envy-inducing effect.

While the bag is entirely painted in black, it comes with golden shoulder chain. This shoulder bag will instantly bring notice-me appeal to any ensemble.

You can either carry the bag cross body, on your shoulder or in the hand as a clutch after dark.

Last week, I spoke with Chavie Lieber of Racked about Prada’s current profit woes, much of which are tied to the recent underperformance of the leather goods that make up roughly 40% of Prada’s business. Lieber also talked to PB contributor Pattie Rechtman, luxury shoppers and industry analysts, and we all more or less agreed: Prada needs to do something about its handbag offerings. In my mind, that means looking beyond its saffiano totes and finding new ways to entice accessories buyers.

Prada’s saffiano bags aren’t bad. In fact, there’s a good chance that they’ll eventually take a spot in handbag history, and they’re a perfect at-work option for women who need a conservative bag that looks tailored and professional. Instead, Prada’s saffiano bags are a problem because there are simply too many of them; the Saffiano Luxe, Executive and Gardener totes look virtually identical, and all three come in multiple sizes and a rainbow of solid colors. The designs have remained virtually unchanged in the years since they debuted.

In the past year, Prada has introduced several lines of beautiful, open-top, soft-sided saffiano totes, but the problem is the same: there’s relatively little differentiation between the lines except for small differences in handle attachment and interior organization. Unless you have strong feelings about sewn-on handles versus buckles, there’s not much in the way of meaningful variety or novelty beyond color, and variety and novelty are the name of the game in handbags right now. Prada simply doesn’t have any answer for Fendi’s forward-thinking fun or Chanel’s zeitgeist-y themes.

For all of saffiano’s functionality and durability, it doesn’t feel like a luxury material when you touch it. Prada is in the position to use any materials and dazzling construction methods it wants because of its vast resources and brand recognition, and it would likely find success with expanded offerings in both exotics and high-end soft leathers. “Variety” needs to be something more than dozens of colors of saffiano leather in order to motivate luxury customers, whose options are plentiful and always changing.

Even when Prada does hit on something that feels full of modernity and urgency, like the wonderfulSpring 2014 painted face bags, the brand does little to capitalize on the momentum. Once the initial offerings of those few designs had sold through, they were not replenished, and the line wasn’t continued into the next season in any meaningful way. Other brands are better at taking something that strikes a nerve and building it out into a full-fledged success that can last multiple seasons (which is, not coincidentally, usually how long it takes a successful brand to hit on another big thing). Prada generally chooses to go in an entirely new direction. Often, the momentum is lost.

As Lieber mentions in her article, Prada would also do well to reign in its availability. Like it or not, most luxury customers are motivated by scarcity, and Prada’s bags are everywhere. That’s in sharp contrast to the brand’s clothes, which are, by all indications, as successful as ever. They’re only available in Prada boutiques, and although ending wholesale in its entirety would be a severe move, pruning the department store availability back and offering an improved, more luxurious, more forward-thinking line of bags is the most likely road to success for Prada in the future.

The saffiano bags won’t be going anywhere, and they shouldn’t. But Prada has the ability to do so much more, and here’s hoping that Miuccia flexes her considerable creative muscles soon.

Over the past six months, we've discussed the problems that plague Prada's handbag business (and, therefore, its business at large) on a number of occasions. Chiefly among them are the brand's reliance on saffiano leather, which is not really a luxury material, and the lack of diversity in its bag mix. The bags that graced the runway during the brand's Fall runway show appeared to be an attempt to address those issues.

More than anything, Prada appears to have heard and heeded its customers' complaints about a lack of fine leathers in its day bag lineup. Although there are a couple printed saffiano bags in this collection, they're all covered in seasonal prints, and the flat leather bags all look buttery and soft. (When I first flipped through the photos, the phrase "well-moisturized" came to mind, but that's weird.) (But also maybe it's accurate?) For the super wealthy among us, the bag parade also featured crocodile and ostrich in gorgeous candy shades that show off the hides' natural characteristics and variations.

These bags were also staunchly functional, unlike many of the brand's past runway bags, which have featured odd strap proportions, jeweled embellishments and overall designs that sometimes seemed to be intentionally ugly. Not only were these bags pretty and proportional across the board, but they felt like exactly the kind of bags a woman would want to carry to work. An ingenious double-layered design created the appearance of a casually slouched, unzipped bag, even while the bag is fully closed. With the exception of the printed saffianos, all of the bags lacked the ubiquitous Prada triangle.

These bags won't solve all of Prada's problems (some people will likely still call them boring or bland), but they're a solid step in the right direction, as well as an indication that Prada is listening. Check out all the bags from the runway show below.

Prada is one of the most sought after brands in the history of fashion…and it isn’t any wonder though, because they’re just killin’ it every season! Now, we’re going to give you the Arrows and Cross Bag Collection, which is composed of the popular Inside Bag and single-handle Chain Bag. These prints are inspired by the men’s Spring Summer 2016 runway show – androgynous, fun and playful are just but a few words to describe these babies! Add some spunk and depth to your outfit by owning one, now!

PRADA LAUNCHED TWO BIG NEW BAGS ON ITS FALL 2016 RUNWAY AND THEY’RE AVAILABLE NOW

Prada is a brand built on thoroughly modern ideas of femininity and it always has been; Miuccia Prada was thinking about "the modern woman" and her functional needs long before the phrase was the descriptor of choice for every designer under the sun. For Fall 2016, Prada is taking another step toward modernity: it will be among the first of Europe's top-tier fashion houses to offer some of its runway bags for immediate, out-of-season purchase.

The bags are the Pionnière and Cahier; the first is an on-trend saddle bag with the Prada insignia in golden metal, and the second is a rectangular flap shoulder bag with intricate hardware at the corners and closure. They're both shapes that have been largely absent from the brand's product assortment, and they should go a long way toward giving consumers the structural options they've come to expect from a top-tier leather brand. The two bags are currently available in select Prada flagships worldwide, including the brand's three Manhattan stores.

Those two weren't the only bags on Prada's runway, though. The show also prominently featured a new, simple east-west tote with accordion gussets that could very well shape up to be the brand's Sac de Jour. We don't know the tote's name yet, but it's in keeping with the can't-beat-'em-join-'em trend of brands doing their own takes on the iconic Birkin's structure. The bag is most often rendered in textured saffiano leather, which helps it hold on to a bit of Prada DNA. Check out it and all the other runway bags below.